Melissa Clark and the War Over Pea Guacamole

Melissa Clark is one of America’s greatest recipe scribes. Over the last two decades, Clark has worked on nearly 40 cookbooks and contributed countless recipes to the _New York Times_ food section. One of her NYT contributions, a recipe based on a Manhattan restaurant’s guacamole with peas, ignited a social media firestorm, with both Barack Obama and Jeb Bush weighing in on the controversial dish. During her chat with Helen and Greg, Melissa gives the full story behind Pea GuacamoleGate, and she explains the inspiration behind her new cookbook, Dinner: Changing the Game.